Editing Solomon (section)

===Literature===

* In [[H. Rider Haggard]]'s ''[[King Solomon's Mines]]'' (1885) the protagonists discover multiple settings said to have belonged to or to have been built at the request of King Solomon, such as 'Solomon's Great Road' and the mines themselves. Also, the two mountains which form the entrance to Kukuana Land (where the mines are located in the novel) are referred to as 'Sheba's Breasts' which could be an allusion to the Queen of Sheba, with whom King Solomon had a relationship, or Solomon's mother, who was named Bathsheba. When in the mines, the characters also contemplate what must have occurred to prevent King Solomon from returning to retrieve the massive amounts of diamonds, gold and ivory tusks that were found buried in his great 'Treasure Chamber'.
* In the ''[[Divine Comedy]]'', the spirit of Solomon appears to [[Dante Alighieri]] in the Heaven of the Sun with other exemplars of inspired wisdom.
* In [[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]]'s ''[[The Physicists]]'', the physicist Möbius claims that Solomon appears to him and dictates the "theory of all possible inventions" (based on ''[[unified field theory]]'').
* Solomon appears in [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s ''[[Just So Stories]]''.
* [[O. Henry]]'s short story ''[[The Gift of the Magi]]'' (1905) contains the following description to convey the preciousness of character Jim Dillingham Young's pocket watch: "Had King Solomon been the janitor, with all his treasures piled up in the basement, Jim would have pulled out his watch every time he passed, just to see him pluck at his beard from envy."
* In [[Neal Stephenson]]'s three-volume ''[[The Baroque Cycle]]'', 17th-century alchemists like [[Isaac Newton]] believe that Solomon created a kind of "heavier" gold with mystical properties and that it was cached in the [[Solomon Islands]] where it was accidentally discovered by the crew of a wayward Spanish galleon. In the third volume of ''The Baroque Cycle, The System of the World'', a mysterious member of the entourage of tsar [[Peter the Great]], named "Solomon [[Kohen|Kohan]]" appears in early 18th-century London. The czar, traveling incognito to purchase English-made ships for [[Imperial Russian Navy#Russian Navy during the reign of Peter the Great|his navy]], explains that he added him to his court after the [[Azov campaigns (1695–1696)#The second Azov campaign|Sack of Azov]], where Kohan had been a guest of the [[Pasha]]. Solomon Kohan is later revealed as one of the extremely long-lived "Wise," such as [[Enoch Root]], and compares a courtyard full of inventors' workstations to "an operation I used to have in Jerusalem a long time ago", denominating either facility as "a temple". Stephenson's sequel to ''[[Reamde]]'', 2019's ''[[Fall; or, Dodge in Hell]]'' was also a surprise sequel to the Baroque Cycle novels and ''[[Cryptonomicon]]''. In the mid- to late-21st century span of ''Fall'', Solomon Kohan has joined the faculty of Princeton University, going by ''Solly Pesador,'' and is described by a student as "one of those guys who had ''been around forever'' and played roles in tech companies going at least as far back as [[Hewlett-Packard]]" and as an "old-school tech geek turned neuro-hacker".
* In ''[[The Ring of Solomon]]'', both King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba are featured prominently.
* Solomon, King of Urushalim, is a significant character in ''[[The Shadow Prince]]'',<ref>{{Cite book |isbn = 978-1-5336-7350-3|title = The Shadow Prince|last1 = Armstrong|first1 = Philip|date = 2016-07-17| publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform }}</ref> the first novel of [[Philip Armstrong]]'s epic [[historical fantasy]], ''[[The Chronicles of Tupiluliuma]]''. His Ring is an Atalantaën Relic, by which is he able to command daemons. He uses it to summon a daemon army, thereafter called the Cohort of Free Daemons, to oppose the forces of the Chaos God, [[Set (deity)|Sutekh]], thus allowing the young Hittite musician, Lisarwa, to repair the Veil that separates the physical world from the dangerous wild energies of the Netherworld, using another of the relics, the Harp of Daud, once owned by his father (King David). Solomon's son, [[Rehoboam]] also appears in a minor capacity.
* In the Japanese manga series ''[[Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic]]'', Solomon was a powerful magician who united all of the world under his peaceful rule. However, when this world was destroyed by a calamity, he created the world ''Magi'' is set in and saved mankind by sending them there. A special power originated from him, the "Wisdom of Solomon", allows the main character Aladdin to talk directly with the soul of a person, alive or dead.
* In the [[manga]] ''[[Devils and Realist]]'', Solomon is a friend of Lucifer and is the "Elector"—the one who can choose the interim ruler over Hell as its emperor rests to regain his strength and had powers over demons known as his seventy-two pillars. He's also known as the one who can control Hell or Heaven with the power of his ring.
* Chapter 14 of the ''[[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' ends with Huck and Jim debating over how wise Solomon really was.
* In [[Francis Bacon]]'s Essay 'Of Revenge', Solomon is paraphrased: "And Solomon, I am sure, saith, It is the glory of a man, to pass by an offence."
* In DC Comics, Solomon is one of the Immortal Elders of the hero [[Captain Marvel (DC Comics)|Captain Marvel]].
* In a subject called in art the ''Idolatry of Solomon'', the foreign wives are depicted as leading Solomon away from Yahweh toward idolatry because they worshiped gods other than Yahweh ({{bibleverse|1|Kings|11:1–3|HE}}). This forms part of the [[Power of Women]] topos in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, showing the dangers women posed to even the most virtuous men.<ref>H Diane Russell (ed), ''Eva/Ave; Women in Renaissance and Baroque Prints'', pp. 162–164, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990, {{ISBN|1558610391}}</ref>
* Naamah, a princess of [[Ammon]] (now in [[Jordan]]) who arrives in Jerusalem at age fourteen to marry King Solomon and tells of their life together, is the narrator of [[Aryeh Lev Stollman]]'s novel ''Queen of Jerusalem'', which was published in 2020 by Aryeh Nir/Modan (Tel Aviv) in Hebrew translation under the title ''Divrei Y'mai Naamah'' (''{{lang|he|דברי ימי נעמה}}'').<ref>{{cite web |title="Queen of Jerusalem" by Arie Lev Stollman— Wife and Mother of a King |url=https://reviewsbyamoslassen.com/?p=78203 |website=Reviews by Amos Lassen |access-date=15 February 2023 |date=20 August 2020}}</ref>